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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Caretaker provide as part of lunch?
(a) Berries.
(b) Beast meat.
(c) Nuts.
(d) Mushrooms.

2. Why does the Caretaker collect the instruments?
(a) He finds them beautiful.
(b) He needs a hobby to occupy his time.
(c) He feels that the previous owners would have wanted someone to look out for them.
(d) He gets lonely and the sound comforts him.

3. What does the narrator say the Librarian can never do since she has no mind?
(a) She can never love him.
(b) She can never miss him.
(c) She can never need him.
(d) She can never remember him.

4. What does the narrator buy while waiting for the clothes to dry?
(a) Four videos.
(b) Four beers.
(c) Four gateaux.
(d) Four cassettes.

5. What does the narrator compare his world to while climbing through the escape route in Chapter 29?
(a) A blue tweed suit.
(b) A credit card.
(c) A unicorn.
(d) Gaien Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator ask the Librarian to do for him when he is finished reading skulls?

2. Why doesn't the Librarian want the narrator to go to the Power Station?

3. How many men does the narrator first see when he looks out the window to where the men are digging the hole?

4. How many people are at the laundromat when the narrator arrives?

5. What is the last thing the shadow tells the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator do after arriving in his apartment in Chapter 31?

2. Explain what the Colonel tells the narrator about the digging of the hole in Chapter 30.

3. What does the narrator tell the librarian about why he got divorced?

4. How does the narrator explain his decision in Chapter 40?

5. How does the Caretaker of the Power Station feel about the musical instruments?

6. Which situation does the narrator define as "despair" in Chapter 33?

7. Explain the beasts' feeding habits as observed in Chapter 26.

8. Describe how the narrator's shadow is living at the beginning of Chapter 32.

9. What does the narrator say he plans to do with the Librarian's mind once he has read it?

10. Describe the scene when the narrator first enters the laundromat.

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